A forum featuring the four candidates for the Copley-Fairlawn Board of Education will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Copley-Fairlawn High School, 3807 Ridgewood Road.

The League of Women Voters of the Akron Area and the Copley-Fairlawn PTA are co-sponsoring the event, which is open to the public. Janice Jacobs, the league’s Education Fund project director, will moderate.

The documentary A Place at the Table about addressing hunger in Americawill be shown Thursday evening at Tallmadge High School, 140 N. Munroe Road.

A reception will begin at 5:15 p.m., with the film show at 6 p.m. and a panel discussion following at 7:30 p.m. Attendees are asked to bring a non-perishable food item as their admission, with especially needed items including peanut butter, cereal, canned beef stew, canned vegetables, soup and tuna.

You've heard of reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. How about reading the Constitution?

That's what the Portage County TEA Party plans to do to celebrate Constitution Day at its monthly meeting Tuesday. The meeting will be at 7 p.m. at Maplewood Career Center, 7075 state Route 88 in Ravenna.

The documentary ALEC Exposed will be shown at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Laborers International Union Local 894 Hall, 720 Wolf Ledges in Akron.

The movie focuses on the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), an organization that critics say provides an opportunity for corporations to give state legislators the law changes they desire that benefit them. ALEC, though, describes itself as a non-partisan group of conservative state lawmakers who believe in "limited government, free markets, federalism and individual liberty."

Two Akron-area lawmakers have now said they don't support military action against Syria.

U.S. Rep. Jim Renacci, R-Wadsworth, released a statement with his opposition today. This follows U.S. Rep. Bob Gibbs, R-Lakeville, who said Wednesday that he doesn't think President Barack Obama has made the case for a military strike.